On 2020-12-22 14:01, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
It seems to me that the primary use for this will be in the interactive interpreter. People are used to something like "cls" or "clear" from various shells. Using it in scripting is, I think, a secondary use-case.
' I disagree. yes, I want to clear the screen a lot during interactive use, but I'd rather do that with a keystroke (cmd+K on the Mac) -- and indeed, do that with iPython all the time, even though iPython has the command built in.
So I think the reason to have it in the std lib is for scripting, and I think putting it in os or sys is just fine.
-CHB
Given that, I think that like other conveniences for interactive use like `help`, it should be available without an import.
Agreed in general, however Ctrl+L is mostly available for this purpose. There are two major exceptions unfortunately.
One is when using cmd.exe. However, every other combination of shell and console/terminal on Windows does support it. Not to mention everywhere Unix has an influence.
Second is the Python REPL console on Windows. I'm guessing it wouldn't be too hard to add Ctrl+L handling to it. Would be useful I think, regardless of some of the other decisions that need to be made.
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